Letter: ‘Bravo’ to S.D. Republicans

Another day with another screed from a fawning President Obama devotee deriding the South Dakota Republican Party’s resolution calling for the impeachment of the president.

Apparently their self-esteem is at such a low ebb they feign embarrassment because, in their estimation, the country is laughing at us rubes in flyover country. But the embarrassment is theirs alone for defending a president who could make Richard Nixon blush with his pathological lying, contempt for the Constitution and disdain for the rule of law.

While the president’s offenses are legion and the “faithless execution” of his office easily clears the “high crimes” bar, the act of impeachment is, in itself, a political one. Absent a Senate capable of conviction and sufficient outrage from a somnolent public over this incompetent president, impeachment is a dead letter.

However, this should not chill the discussion over impeachment, for it’s one we must engage, and, as proved by Nixon’s resignation, the tide is capable of shifting.

So “bravo” to the state Republicans who made the bold stand against a president gone rogue. For doing the job of an obsequious media that long ago abdicated its responsibilities of a free and independent press. For shining a bright light on the abuses of the rule of law that is the manner of this administration and for exposing the cockroaches, sending them scurrying.